On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:13:58 -0500, [log in to unmask] writes:

>My client was seeing a lot of those "terminal status request failed"
>messages when they installed their first RISC machine.  That was
>due to PC's and terminals which were still configured for ENQ/ACK,
>and the error frequency decreased dramatically when the
>configurations were changed to XON/XOFF.
>
>Just recently, the number of error messages increased quite a bit,
>when the HP3000 was upgraded from 4.0 to 5.5.  (It all happened
>one weekend; we never got to try 5.0)  The installation of the
>memory patch for the VPlus problem has helped quite a bit,
>although the messages have not gone away entirely.

Just as a side note, we recently (1/26/1997) went from 4.0 to 5.5 and
haven't noticed any problems with "terminal status request failed"
messages.  At least, not yet!

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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